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Kritika Kultura

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0000-0002-1036-2246

Abstract

This essay is an experimental piece of writing that brings together an array of thinkers from different traditions. Readers will encounter allusions to the Heideggerian Marxism of Axelos, the schizoanalysis of Deleuze and Guattari, and the pre-Socratics such as Heraclitus. Badiou is present, alongside Glissant, Nietzsche, and Bernard Stiegler. Karl Marx also makes an appearance. My project is to rethink the question of the unthought and the open system. I have been exploring this theme in various contexts, and for nearly a decade, I have been revisiting the excellent philosophy of Kostas Axelos. Axelos is a thinker who is rarely read nowadays, contributing to a certain impoverishment of thought, especially in the philosophy of technology. This intellectual deficiency overlooks the opportunity to critique technology as a whole, including Heidegger’s interpretation of it. I believe that through figures like Axelos, working in conjunction with philosophers like Deleuze and Guattari, a new mode of thinking can emerge—what I refer to as the open system or the quest for the philosophy of the unthought. So here, I explore the idea of philosophy as an exhausted exercise and contemplate the very end of utopian thinking as such. Central to my thought experiment is the “enigmatic” notion of the utterly unexpected, as articulated by Heraclitus. I intend to weave together various philosophical threads, drawing insights from thinkers such as Axelos on l’impense (the unthought), Glissant (relation), and Deleuze and Guattari (rhizome), to shed light on contemporary existential challenges in the context of the Anthropocene. By invoking the Greek concept of the unexpected, I make connections between Heraclitus’s fragmentary philosophy and the idea of the open system (Axelos). With a focus on philosophy’s state of exhaustion, I will explore the potential ramifications of this weariness for contemporary thought.

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